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September 7, 2012 By Al Martine

Fake it until you make it.  Act you’ve been there.  Say thank you and move on.   Over time, one acquires a good bit of advice on what to do when they’re transitioning from one level of success to another.  I first heard the phrase “Fake it until you make it” in the Jaycees 10 […]

Filed Under: Entrepreneurship

Oops–Be Careful on what you say in an open forum like Twitter

June 14, 2012 By Al Martine

I logged into Twitter a moment ago and found a BP “promoted Tweet” which said “In 2011, 81% of US energy demand was supplied by domestic sources. Up from all-time low of 70% in 2005.”  It is an interesting fact but what was more interesting was the public replies and re-tweets.  I can’t imagine this […]

Filed Under: Business Thinking

What a Quarter

June 4, 2012 By Al Martine

I’m writing this post almost two months after my last post but it frankly doesn’t feel like it’s been two months.  So much has happened with TechWhirl and other parts of my life that it all seems like a faint memory rather than around sixty-days. Since my last post, TechWhirl had just pulled off a pretty […]

Filed Under: Entrepreneurship Tagged With: TechWhirl, Turn-Around Management

Early Story Lines for WVU Football and Our Move to the Big 12

April 12, 2012 By Al Martine

Right now it seems it seems that there are two basic story lines for WVU Football. Gino Smith for Heisman and can WVU hack it in the Big 12. Both are interesting story lines especially after being released from the Big East prison.  After the pasting we put on Clemson in the Orange Bowl it’s […]

Filed Under: General Tagged With: Big 12 Conference, WVU Sports

Out Growing Our Server

April 4, 2012 By Al Martine

I’ve spent a less than pleasant week f- around with TechWhirl’s systems in an attempt to keep BlueHost from restricting their operations.  Apparently the design I’m trying to run really doesn’t work for BlueHost’s limited capacity.  The design isn’t overly complex, or so I thought but apparently I was wrong. We have setup TechWhirl to […]

Filed Under: Entrepreneurship Tagged With: hosting, TechWhirl, Turn-Around Management

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